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Lecture by Bassem Saad about their contribution to the exhibition “Illiberal Lives”

Bassem Saad is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Their work explores historical rupture, infrastructure, spontaneity, and difference, through film, performance, and sculpture, as well as through essays and fiction. With an emphasis on past and present forms of struggle, they attempt to place scenes of intersubjective exchange within their world-historical frames. Bassem’s work […]

Borderland Residencies 2023

Ludwig Forum Aachen is pleased to be part of the transnational network program Borderland Residencies for the first time this year. In addition to providing financial support for the scholarships, short-term artistic interventions and co-productions, the program also offers the opportunity to all fellows for professional and transnational networking, for deepening their own artistic practice, […]

Opening Borderland Residencies 2023/24

In autumn 2023, art residencies along the border between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium open their doors wide for international guest artists and join their forces in a unique network programme: the Borderland Residencies. Numerous events await the artists during their residencies. Whether it's cross-border excursions, day trips to selected art venues or studio visits […]

Temporarily closed

Dear visitors, we are reconstructing for you. The museum is temporarily closed from 11.09. - 06.10.2023! We cordially invite you to the next exhibition Katalin Ladik.Ooooooooo-pus and the opening on Friday, 06.10.2023 at 7 pm! The library of the Ludwig Forum is open from Tuesday to Friday, 1 - 5 pm upon personal arrangement. Please […]

Katalin Ladik “Ooooooooo-pus”

The Ludwig Forum Aachen is pleased to present Ooooooooo-pus, the first major survey exhibition of Katalin Ladik (b. 1942 in Novi Sad) in Europe. Drawing on the artist’s lifelong interest in language, sound, and corporeality, the exhibition provides a first comprehensive overview of her works from the late 1960s to the present. With her radical […]

Switch. Pop, Points and Politics from the Ludwig Collection

Download Exhibition Booklet On October 6, 1964, The American Supermarket opened on East Seventy-eighth Street in New York. The shelves were packed with fruits and vegetables, canned food, laundry detergent, and much more. What looked at first glance like a supermarket was in fact an exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery with “products” from, among others, […]

Matinée with Conversation and Book Release

We cordially invite you a matinée with a conversation and book release with the artist and the co-curators.Katalin Ladik. Ooooooooo-pusA monograph published by Skira Editore, Milan, accompanies the exhibition. The publication comprises contributions by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Diedrich Diederichsen, Hendrik Folkerts, Irena Haiduk, Fanny Hauser, Ana Janevski, Emese Kürti, Katalin Ladik, Quinn Latimer, Bhavisha Panchia, Dieter […]

DOUBLE WALL DOUBLE TALK – Finissage, short performance and Dialogue with Dan Perjovschi and Annette Lagler, welcome Eva Birkenstock

For the fourth edition of the Double Wall Projects exhibition series initiated in 2004 by then-director Harald Kunde, Romanian-based artist Dan Perjovschi staged a pictographic reference system of pointed artistic commentaries on topics such as globalization, capitalism, politics, and contemporary art on the 9-meter-wide and 14-meter-high walls of the light tower of Ludwig Forum Aachen. […]

Performance by Katalin Ladik

As part of her exhibition Ooooooooo-pus, Katalin Ladik will return to Aachen on November 19, 2023 and will activate her work Follow Me into Mythology (2017), which is currently on display in the exhibition. The textile work was originally conceived as a score for a performance that took place in 2017 in the context of […]